Text 2] Praise of King Prthu by the Professional Reciters 641

na alam—not able; vayam—we; te—your; mahima—glories; anuvarnane—
in describing; yah—you who; deva—the Personality of Godhead; varyah—
foremost; avatatara—descended; maéyaya—by His internal potencies or
causeless mercy; vena-anga—from the body of King Vena; jatasya—who
have appeared; ca—and; paurusani—glorious activities; te—of you; vacah-
patinam—of great orators; api—although; babhramuh—became bewildered;
dhiyah—the minds.

TRANSLATION

The reciters continued: Dear King, you are a direct incarnation of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, and by His causeless mercy
you have descended on this earth. Therefore it is not possible for us to
actually glorify your exalted activities. Although you have appeared
through the body of King Vena, even great oraters and speakers like Lord
Brahma and other demigods cannot exactly describe the glorious activities
of Your Lordship.

PURPORT

In this verse the word mayaya means “by your causeless mercy.” The
Mayavadi philosophers explain the word maya as meaning “‘illusion” or
‘‘falseness.” However, there is another meaning of mayd—that is, “‘causeless
mercy.” There are two kinds of maya—yogamayd and mahamaya. Maha-
maya is an expansion of yogamaya, and both these mayas are different ex-
pressions of the Lord’s internal potencies. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, the
Lord appears through His internal potencies (atma-mayaya). We should
therefore reject the Mayavada explanation that the Lord appears in a body
given by the external potency, the material energy. The Lord and His in-
carnation are fully independent and can appear anywhere and everywhere
by virtue of the internal potency. Although born out of the so-called dead
body of King Vena, King Prthu was still an incarnation of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead by the Lord’s internal potency. The Lord can ap-
pear in any family. Sometimes He appears as a fish incarnation (mutsya-
avatara), or a boar incarnation (varaha-avatara). Thus the Lord is completely
free and independent to appear anywhere and everywhere by His internal
potency. It is stated that Ananta, an incarnation of the Lord who has un-
limited mouths, cannot reach the end of His glorification of the Lord, al-
though Ananta has been describing the Lord since time immemorial. So
what to speak of demigods like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and others? It is
said that the Lord is Siva-virinci-nutam—always worshiped by demigods like
